"Nox erat et placidum carpebant fessa soporem corpora per terras, silvaeque et saeva quierant aequora, cum medio volvuntur sidera lapsu, cum tacet omnis ager, pecudes pictaeque volucres, quaeque lacus late liquidos quaeque aspera dumis rura tenent, somno positae sub nocte silenti. [lenibant curas et corda oblita laborum.] at non infelix animi Phoenissa, neque umquam solvitur in somnos oculisve aut pectore noctem accipit: ingeminant curae rursusque resurgens saevit amor magnoque irarum fluctuat aestu. sic adeo insistit secumque ita corde volutat."
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